Monday, November 03, 2008

A Very Sad Man

A St. Olaf visiting professor bragged about stealing John McCain signs from his GOP neighbors and described it as a thrilling act of political defiance for a highly-trafficked liberal blog.

“Yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done,” wrote Phil Busse in an essay titled “Confessions of a Lawn Sign Stealer” for the Huffington Post.

Busse is teaching a class on media studies this semester at St. Olaf and is currently director for the Northwest Institute for Social Change. He unsuccessfully ran for the mayor in Portland, Oregon in 2004.

Busse said he realized he committed a crime and expected to be charged with misdemeanor theft of trespassing in the piece.

It would have been nice if they'd provided a link to the HuffPost piece. I had to go there and find it myself.

There's the prevailing attitude that the end justifies the means in the Democrat party. That means breaking into private emails, stealing signs, threatening supporters-whatever it takes. All they need are brown shirts and Sam Browne belts and they would be right in line. I just have to hold up my hands and ask IS ANYONE GOING TO SPEAK UP FOR THOSE OF US WHO DISAGREE? It's pretty pathetic that this man gets a rush from this kind of thing. But then again, he wouldn't do that down here where we have guns and religion to forgive us for shooting him.

This kind of thing makes me sick. If someone on campus told him he could not speak politically in front of his classes, he would scream bloody murder. Yet he is doing the same kind of suppression by stealing signs.

No, Brave Anonymous, I am saying-tongue in cheek-that he's a creature of his culture. His culture lauds those who make actions against the current administration. They see such actions as a type of emancipating act. In a culture where the end does not justify the means-as in most places in American Life-those types of actions are not sanctioned and celebrated. But since you so obviously are of the predilection to believe that most conservatives are idiot yahoos who shoot first and ask questions later, then why not pursue the stereotype for some good end? After all, if the ends justify the means for some, then they justify the means for all, right?